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Leopold Mannes manuscripts

Creator : Mannes, Leopold

before 1965, 1.1 linear ft

Leopold Mannes (1899-1964) was son of the founders of Mannes School of Music, David and Clara (Damrosch) Mannes. Leopold became director of the school in 1940. Mannes and his friend Leopold Godowsky, Jr., also a musician, invented a process of color photography that became known as Kodachrome. Mannes was also a musician. This collection contains music manuscripts of Leopold Mannes' compositions including arrangements of pieces by other composers such as Bach and Faure.

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Peter Pindar Stearns music manuscripts

Creator : Stearns, Peter Pindar

1948-2013, 6 linear feet

This collection consists primarily of manuscripts of Stearns's scores from the length of his career from the 1950s to the 2000s. These scores reflect his musical development from his early career in New York City up to his residence in Vermont at the end of his life.
Stearns wrote music in a wide variety of genres, including string quartets, sonatas, sonatinas, symphonies, cantatas, and song cycles. These works are both secular and, in his later life, religious and Christian.
The material herein includes early notes on and drafts of scores; manuscript versions with holograph corrections; and the published versions.
Finally, this collection contains a small amount of correspondence related to publishing as well as a scrapbook of press clippings and ephemera, including programs of performances.

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Menachem Zur collection

Creator : Zur, Menachem

1972-2005, .4 linear feet

Menachem Zur (born 1942) is an Israeli-American composer. He studied at Mannes College, and went on to Columbia for his DMA. The Menachem Zur Collection includes several of his chamber music scores, as well as recordings of them.